Saturday Market #28: Surrendering to the Season on a Slightly Soggy Saturday

There's a beautiful tree on the East Park Block that turns a most brilliant and beautiful shade of red right at the turn of the season. Folks that "live" right around it say you can watch the hue shift over the course of a single Saturday. It will be no surprise to you that I find this tree quite photogenic and completely irresistible when I have camera in hand. In fact, it has caused me to pick up my camera and capture what I can on many occasions.

Saturday was one of those days. It started out with torrents of rain just as folks were picking their spaces in the morning. The first rainy morning in the fall does scare off a few vendors, but those who didn't brave it were probably sad that they missed what turned out to be a gorgeous fall day - for the most part anyway. There was one intense half-an-inch-in-ten-minutes downpour right at 1:00. Other that that and the occasional drizzle, it was sweet and almost warm, filled with slanty gold sunlight and the crisp fresh smell of damp pavement and falling leaves. Ahhhh, you have to love a day like that!